Writers on the Front Range

A new Urban Agriculture Management certificate at Front Range Community College provides students with the knowledge and skills to start their own urban farms or work as technicians for companies that develop and maintain urban farms.

Urban Farm Management, the four-credit keystone class of the certificate, will be taught during the spring 2013 semester at both campuses. The semester runs from Jan. 22, 2013, to May 13, 2013. The class is scheduled for 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at the Larimer Campus. At the Westminster Campus, the class is scheduled for 9 to 11:15 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.

Stephen Cochenour, a graduate of Colorado State University’s horticulture program, a former manager of its research farm, and an urban farming consultant, will teach Urban Farm Management.

The Urban Agriculture certificate was designed with input from green-industry advisors. It provides graduates with a complement of critical landscape maintenance and farming skills that would allow graduates to start their own urban farms, or to work as technicians at landscape companies that have entered the urban farming sector or wish to offer their clients a specialized maintenance package built around urban farming.

For information about the other classes in the certificate, consult the class schedule.

FRCC is a member of the Colorado Community College System, the state’s largest system of higher education. CCCS serves more than 162,000 students annually. The system oversees career and academic programs in the 13 state community colleges and career and technical programs in more than 160 school districts and six other post-secondary institutions.